/sci/ - Science & Math

>>14884552
Yes modern academia is full of mythomaniac sociopaths, their ego is tied to be right at all times. They just cannot compute being wrong, so you must be destroyed in order to correct 'reality'. Sure not everyone is like that, but in the same way not all the surface of a mine field has explosive devices beneath.
In my country (as in many I think) if you contradict a professor, even for the stupidest detail on the most irrelevant topic (idk adding salt before or after the water in the pot is boiling), you're basically scarred for life and they will make you suffer. They can also put you down even if they agree with you, if they already dislike you, eh. Having tenure, they can remain insufferable and arrogant all their life. And yet they force their phd students and postgrads to call them by first name (the way it is in Ivy League teams), even if their career could be ruined at the fist signs of disagreement (or jealousy if the underling had a brilliant thought). Most people are conditioned to revere them as demigods, in the same way if a movie has won an Oscar cannot have major flaws.
>>14884559
> Very few are well rounded individuals with intellectual humility
my own personal life philosophy. Nobody is perfect, sure someone can be smart sometimes, but very much prone to errors in any other moment. Apparently being decent and pleasant and helpful is a superpower in these dire times. You made a mistake? Who cares, let's fix it up, it would be better next time, and here's some cake. I made a mistake? Eh, you're right. I'll try to improve. Let's have a drink
Society would improve 220% if everyone had this simple chillaxing attitude
>>14884569
>>14884820
this

>>9668427
It's a good point.

The word awesome is supposed to describe a religious type experience, that feeling of oneness with everything that a person can get when lost in wonder, ritual or collective dance.

Awe is a sense of the infinite.

i'm a 1st year mechanical engineering student and it's very easy so far. i've gotten an A+ on every paper and at least a 98 on every test. i just got a 100 on an online assessment.

i know what you're going to say: "you're going to a shit uni then"
not true. i'm just able to memorize hundreds of things with relative ease. there were 178 terms and definitions that i had to memorize for a test two weeks ago, and i scored a 100(after the bonus question, so actually a 97, but i only lost partial credit on a few questions)

i really like theoretical physics, the link(s) between math and philosophy, cosmology, etc

should i switch majors to something more obscure? engineering is sorta lame. it interests me but i'm not enticed by the idea of being an engineer

How does conservation of mass explain the fact that a full hard drive weighs more than an empty one?

Is the stereotype of comp sci majors that's talked about on /sci/ a meme?

Why are maths and physics fags so booty blasted by engineers?

>>7976052
>he thinks there's only one bear poster

>>7970737

No, but Gorilla posting is.

>>7966819

Bear posting is scientifically superior

What is objectively the most repulsive sound a human can make?